15 rescued from Dickinson nursing home

August 27, 2017

Fifteen senior citizens were rescued from a Dickinson nursing, hours after a viral photo showing them sitting in waist-deep water went viral.Dickinson emergency management coordinator David Popoff confirmed that 15 people were rescued from La Vita Bella, an assisted living home on the 3500 block of Oak Drive in Dickinson.Popoff confirmed the rescue by phone to The Daily News at noon on Sunday, hours after a post on Twitter showing at least eight people, and one cat, sitting in a room with water up to their waists.“We were air-lifting grandmothers and grandfathers,” Popoff said.Timothy McIntosh, of Tampa, Fla., sent the original tweet, which was re-tweeted more than 2,000 times.The Daily News reached out to McIntosh on Twitter, and then spoke to him over the phone. He said the picture was sent to him by Trudy Lampson, his mother-in-law and the owner of the La Vita Bella, at about 9 a.m.The …READ MORE ON GALVNEWS.COM